IT IS NOT HOMOPHOBIA, IT IS "ORDERS" and HUMAN EMOTION. Period.

@FamousOneRadio Andy, "Lady-G" IT IS NOT HOMOPHOBIA, IT IS "ORDERS" and HUMAN EMOTION. Period. #Stayoutofthetroopslivesladygaga #dadt

Thank you, Michelle(!), Barry, and Andrew, for enlightening us on how we could be caught up in an attempt to “change the tone”, “take back the (national) conversation”, …read be misled and hear history and reasoning revised; in this case Lady GAGA’s attempt to make her wrong opinion of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” look right!

I am disgusted with her, and types like her who have not lived long enough to spout, yet will--with such an obviously limited view of what they purport, then use the glitz they (can afford to) use to drive others (once again, read "our teens") to re-believe their point of view is correct. Pshaw!

Idiot!

Are those against the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” homophobic? Hateful?

NO, WE are not.

1-- it is an ORDER; and ‘you signed up to go and you DO WHAT YOU ARE TOLD’. Period.
2—unless you are dead you have some human desires. Well, don’t you? And, inconvenient, claustrophobic, long-term, frustrating environments can be grueling on any human. Humans seek pleasure. No psychiatrist has to clarify this! If, then, a man--straight or gay--knows another man may have a tendency for the sexual act there is a higher likelihood off-side (sexual) activity could take place; say, between another man who was "questioning". Maybe drugs or drunkardness could lead to an erratic decision. Are you in denial that is a potential after affect on some? ‘You did not SIGN UP or were recruited to serve while having your own personal issues distract you from that PRIORITY’. Period.

Michelle summed it up completely. WE are not WRONG in requiring DADT to stand. NO ONE IS HATEFUL. NO ONE IS HOMOPHOBIC ... except maybe the squeaky wheel known as Lady GAGA??

(By the way, NONE of the 'old Troops' and my closest buddies or loved ones I know want anybody re-deciding or re-defining this topic for them! Not Colin Powell,and NOT Lady Gaga!)

-Angela/TPM